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List of names and quantities and possibly commodities. Names include Hiba b. Dāʾūd and Abū Isḥāq.
Letter addressed to Hodaya b. Yishai the Exilarch from Damascus who visited Egypt in the 1230s to solicit money from the communities there and overstayed …
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Letter from a Byzantine woman named Irini and her sister Kali. In Hebrew. Written in a crude hand. "Come before... and if there is no …
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Small fragment from a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138). The content is unclear but a certain Elʿazar is mentioned. an …
Recto (secondary use): accounts of materia medica in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Letter head addressed to Abū Yaḥyā Nahray b. Nissim. (Information from CUDL)
Tax receipt or commercial account or receipt.
Letter addressed to Avraham Kohen, in Istanbul. Dated: Shevat 5409 AM, which is 1649 CE. In Hebrew. "We have not received any letter from you …
Letter from Moshe Castro, in Jerusalem, to Avraham Ibn Shānjī, in Fustat/Cairo. Written in Hebrew. Dating: 1513/14 CE, based on the assessment of Avraham David. …
Letter from Natan b. Nahray, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat.
[כתאבי אט]אל אללה בקא מולאי אלסיד אלאגל ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה
[וסעאדת]ה וכבת חסדתה ואעדאה לי מצא מן כסלו כתמה אללה עלי
מולאי באחסן כאתמה וע…
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Minute fragment containing a few words of blessings in Hebrew. Might be from a letter, but too little remains.
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: Monday, 4 Av 5386 AM, which is 1626 CE. Concerning Malka/Milka bt. [...] Amarillo, the widow of the …
Letter addressed to al-shaykh Abū l-[...] al-Yahūdī in Fustat. From his family members (maybe a brother?) outside of the capital. They urge him to come …
Receipt in Arabic script for a payment by Mūsā Naʿīm, dated 1824/25 CE (the end of Muḥarram 1240H). The receipt was issued by the state …
List specifying the expenses for building the Jerusalem synagogue. Dated 1039-1040. (E. Bareket, Shafrir misrayim, 135)
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Historical treatise (many pages), it seems mainly discussing the rulers and wars of Ifrīqiyya (Al-Jazā'ir, Tūnis, Qayrawān, etc.) in the mid-13th-century. Also discusses events in …
Letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Needs examination.
Legal fragment. Very faded. Hand of Mevorakh b. Natan he-Ḥaver, whose name also appears in l.2. A number of other names are mentioned in this …
Responsum or responsa. Naming specific people instead of the usual "Reʾuven" and "Shimʿon" or "fulān." At least on verso, the case has to do with …
Letter from Ismā'īl al-Tāhartī, Ifrīqiya, to Abū l-Bishr Yaʿaqov b. Yosef Ibn ʿAwkal, Egypt. Mentions "the remnants of an illness" (athar al-ʿilla, l. 4.
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Letter from Avraham b. Natan, possibly in Tyre, to a tenant of his, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Gil identified the sender based on his handwriting. …
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Letter fragment from a son to his remarried father, conveying family news and expressing regret that his father's previous wife is giving him trouble. The …
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Marriage document, bill of conditions שטר תנאים issued in Rashid (Rosetta). Undated, but this document must have been issued at the same time as the …
State document, likely a decree. The ends of three lines are preserved. "... bi-l-istiʿmālāt al-mubāraka... wa-ʿarrafanā ijtihādaka... al-maḥmūl ʿaynan wa-l-aṣnāf...." Acknowledging the good service of …
Recto (secondary use): Book list in rudimentary hand and spelling. Mentions books such as Kitāb al-Wadīʿa; the book of Lamentations; Tehillot (= Tehillim?); a book …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. In fact there may be two documents here, written at 180 degrees to each other. (מע סכרה אלכביזה ואלדי ישהד אליה …
Possibly a letter of appeal for charity in Hebrew but the handwriting and spelling are quite rudimentary, and it is difficult to make sense of …
Recto: Letter (or copy of a letter) in Hebrew, mentioning Hamadan in the antepenultimate line, and perhaps written there. The scribe signed his name, but …
Letter, probably 11th century Babylonia. The content is unclear, It's probably dealing with a death of a Rabbi. The line spacing and the script is …
Minute fragment from a court record involving Avraham b. Nathan. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138). AA
Marriage contract (ketubba). On parchment. Location: Cairo. Dated: [Thursday,] 15 Kislev 1461 Seleucid, which is 17 November 1149 CE, under the authority of the Nagid …
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Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Upper right piece. The sender seems to be rebuking the addressee. Headed by Proverbs 1:7 (יראת ייי ראשית דעת …
Legal fragment, with release formulae. The party mentioned is Sitt [...].
Bifolio of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Each section lists the expenses for a specified day, or maybe the allowances disbursed to the …
Damaged fragment with an unidentified text in Hebrew, maybe a prayer or a letter, but hard to be sure. Contains phrases like רב טוב ורב …
Letter from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (with motto) to the cantor Faraj Allah urging him to collect the jibāya for Yom Kippur. Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides' …
Recto: The upper part is probably medical recipes in Arabic script. The lower part is business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: Very damaged text in both …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Reused for Hebrew poetry.
Accounts that mention the "Karo y Frances Kon[panya]" in the heading and a wide variety of coinage types and quantities. This folder is mostly or …
Literary text in Spanish. Needs examination.
Fragment of a literary narrative in Arabic script. Mentions: a jāriya (meaning either girl or female slave) who nursed or was nursed; someone who "brought …
Accounts, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Maimonides, Epistle to Yemen
Late accounts in Arabic.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 11th or 12th century. Listing purchases made on behalf of somebody (אשתרי לה מן דלך). THe name Saʿīd appears in …
A hastily written list of 37 contributors whose names are provided in abbreviated form. Perhaps a collection for a singer at a minor family event; …
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Damaged fragment in Hebrew in a late hand, probably literary.